religion

American Literature Association
San Diego, CA May 21-24

Religion and Utopia in American Literature

Recent scholarship excavates the politics of religions in American literature but has largely left untreated the utopian quality of religion. In many literary texts, religion provides bases for imagining new social relations. Reading religion as utopian invites us to look anew at the multivalent relations between religion and politics in American literature.

The Kurt Vonnegut Society is pleased to sponsor two panels at the 31st American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Diego, 21-24 May 2020.  One traditional panel will focus on Vonnegut and Religion, while the other will be a roundtable with short statement papers meant to generate a productive dialogue amongst speakers and attendees about the future directions of Vonnegut scholarship.  Proposals may be submitted to both events, though presenters may be accepted to only one.

Iranian Journal of Islamic Studies (IJIS)

Call for Papers

Authors are cordially invited to submit scholarly articles concerned with Islamic Studies to the Iranian Journal of Islamic Studies (IJIS), which will launch in March 2020. IJIS is a quarterly journal of The University of Religions and Denomination (URD). This journal is submitting applications for Web of Science and Scopus after its two first issues get published. For further information on IJIS, follow this link: http://ri.urd.ac.ir/news?newsCode=951

Greetings, 

 Dianoia, Boston College’s peer-reviewed Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, is currently accepting submissions -- until January 15, 2020 -- for its Spring issue. If any undergraduate editors at Logos are interested in sending a submission for consideration, we would love the opportunity to review it for publication.

Death casts a long shadow.  Its significance is not merely qua biological event, but as something that compels a response from us throught out lives.  Our responses have varied widely, according to what death is taken to be and which deaths (e.g., animal, environmental, that of others, one's own) are taken to be relevant.  Mourning rites, martyrdom, and philosophical consolation: the centrality of these and other such responses within religious forms of life attests to the power and productivity of death as a feature of being mortal.